Group Lead, Liquid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry

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Job description

Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe's growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms. Today, our foundry is developing over 40 different organisms to make different products across multiple industries.Core to our organism engineering pipeline is the testing and analysis of our engineered strains. We leverage diverse analytical tools to get a detailed picture of the performance of these strains. Our analytical approaches are designed to work across dozens of different cultured ingredients and scale x via software and automation. We're seeking a highly committed individual who possesses extensive experience with liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometers and is passionate about delivering efficient methods and capabilities in the support of synthetic biology operations.As a Senior LCMS Scientist and group lead, you will direct and contribute to the development, optimization and production level implementation of LCMS methods across a diverse set of programs, helping drive scale through standardization and operational excellence. You will need direct leadership experience, attention to detail, the ability to collaborate with small teams, and a strong organizational mindset. You should possess a strong foundation in analytical chemistry, methods development and troubleshooting. In addition, you should be passionate about doing benchwork, and eager to deliver through learning, operating and improving a multitude of diverse LCMS chromatography methods and technologies.ResponsibilitiesLead, develop and mentor. Execute defined LC-MS services and deliver data to organism engineering teams.Lead troubleshooting initiatives when data is out of spec or instruments fail. When possible or necessary, teach junior members how to tackle these problems.Develop LC-MS methods across a diverse set of programs, analytes and sample preparations methods.Participate in method development strategy setting, tracking and reporting for program team collaborations.Interface with various in-house developed LIMS software and data analysis tools to digitally track and report results in a consistent and timely manner.Work with other members of the analytical chemistry team to drive standardization, quality processes and documentation towards improved LC-MS methods.Contribute to setting throughput/capacity metrics to enable forecasting and demand planning.Leverage your industry and analytical chemistry experience to lead and mentor junior members on the team as a teacher/coach.Required Experience and Capabilities:BS or MS in analytical chemistry, chemical engineering, or equivalent degreeMinimum of 5 years of industry experience across Liquid Chromatography and LC-MS method operations and developmentMinimum of 2 years experience in Mass Spectrometry, preferably LC-MSExperience working within a cross functional environmentDesired Experience and Capabilities: Direct experience with Thermo LCsDirect experience with Thermo LC-MSs (QQQ Quantiva, QQQ Altis, QE, QE-Focus, QE-HFX, etc.)Prior experience working with automated and/or high throughput liquid handlers (Hamilton, LC autosamplers, automated workcells, etc.)Demonstrated experience working with quality systems and processesKnowledge of LEAN and six sigma to improve process efficiency and quality a plusExperience onboarding new team membersExperience leading small teams a plusPhD in analytical chemistry or related field a plusTo learn more about Ginkgo, check out some recent press:What is it really like to take your company public via a SPAC? One Boston biotech shares its journey (Fortune)Ginkgo Bioworks resizes the definition of going big in biotech, raising $2.5B in a record SPAC deal that weighs in with a whopping $15B-plus valuation (Endpoints News)Ginkgo Bioworks CEO on scaling up Covid-19 testing: 'If we try, we can win' (CNBC)Ginkgo raises $70 million to ramp up COVID-19 testing for employers, universities (Boston Globe)Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)Ginkgo Bioworks Provides Support on Process Optimization to Moderna for COVID-19 Response (PRNewswire)The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing (Forbes)Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding (Bloomberg)Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts (Reuters)Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs? (The Atlantic)We also feel that it's important to point out the obvious here there's a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life.We're developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can and will impact people around the world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that it's something we'll be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, it's critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology.It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and employment applicants.Apply for this job